The Impact of New Technologies on Jobs and their Effects on Local Economies -...OECD CFE
The document discusses the impact of new technologies on jobs and local economies. It notes that while technologies are often touted as improving productivity and living standards, they can also hollow out middle-level jobs, increase income inequality within and between regions, and exacerbate urban-rural and regional divides. Brexit and populist votes in Europe have been influenced by discontent over these geographical economic disparities. The challenges of institutions, governance, and distribution must be addressed for technology to benefit society as a whole.
Smart Specialisation Strategy and Internationalisation: challenges and opport...OECD CFE
Presentation by Simona Iammarino, Professor of Economic Geography, LSE, United Kingdom at the OECD webinar on "The Internationalisation of Smart Specialisation Strategies", held on 28 June 2021.
More info: https://www.oecd.org/cfe/leed/s3-internationalisation.htm
Productivity, regional policy and economic governanceOECD Governance
Presenation on Productivity, Regional Policy and Economic Governance made at the EU Cohesion Policy Conference in Bratislava on “Past Evidence, Current Experience and Future Perspectives” held in Bratislava, Slovak Republic on 15-16 September. Presentation by Mr. Joaquim Oliveira Martins, Head Regional Development Policy Division.
More info: www.oecd.org/gov/regional-policy/
- The OECD area has become more decentralised over the last two decades, with reforms profoundly changing fiscal decentralisation in some countries. Motivations for reforms vary and include both democratic and economic factors.
- Recent trends include changes to responsibilities, especially in education, transport, and health, as well as multi-level governance reforms involving institutions, public management, and territories.
- While decentralisation provides benefits like efficiency and democratic governance, it also risks inefficiencies and disparities if not implemented properly with adequate capacities, resources, coordination, and fiscal frameworks at subnational levels.
Productivity, agglomeration and metropolitan governanceOECD Governance
Presentation made by Joaquim Oliveira Martins, Head Regional Development Policy, OECD, at the Global Forum on Productivity, held in Lisbon Portugal on 7-8 July 2016.
www.oecd.org/gov/regional-policy/
Low density regions: places of opportunityOECDregions
Presentation on low density regions made at the DG Agri at the European Commission on Future Orientation of OECD’s Work on Rural Policy. Presentation made by Enrique Garcilazo, Head Rural Policy, OECD Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Local Development and Tourism.
More information: http://www.oecd.org/regional/regional-policy/oecdworkonruraldevelopment.htm
This document discusses productivity in cities and the role of metropolitan governance. It finds that larger cities tend to be more productive due to agglomeration effects from sharing resources and thicker labor markets. However, administrative fragmentation in metropolitan areas can reduce productivity by hindering coordination, and is linked to increased income segregation and urban sprawl. The establishment of metropolitan governance bodies can help internalize externalities, reduce sprawl, and increase citizen satisfaction with public services like transportation. Overall, good governance is important for maximizing the benefits of agglomeration and improving performance in metropolitan areas.
OECD Metropolitan Review of Rotterdam-The HagueOECD Governance
Presentation of the OECD Metropolitan Review of Rotterdam-the Hague launch in the Netherlands on 1 February 2016.
www.oecd.org/regional/regional-policy/
The Impact of New Technologies on Jobs and their Effects on Local Economies -...OECD CFE
The document discusses the impact of new technologies on jobs and local economies. It notes that while technologies are often touted as improving productivity and living standards, they can also hollow out middle-level jobs, increase income inequality within and between regions, and exacerbate urban-rural and regional divides. Brexit and populist votes in Europe have been influenced by discontent over these geographical economic disparities. The challenges of institutions, governance, and distribution must be addressed for technology to benefit society as a whole.
Smart Specialisation Strategy and Internationalisation: challenges and opport...OECD CFE
Presentation by Simona Iammarino, Professor of Economic Geography, LSE, United Kingdom at the OECD webinar on "The Internationalisation of Smart Specialisation Strategies", held on 28 June 2021.
More info: https://www.oecd.org/cfe/leed/s3-internationalisation.htm
Productivity, regional policy and economic governanceOECD Governance
Presenation on Productivity, Regional Policy and Economic Governance made at the EU Cohesion Policy Conference in Bratislava on “Past Evidence, Current Experience and Future Perspectives” held in Bratislava, Slovak Republic on 15-16 September. Presentation by Mr. Joaquim Oliveira Martins, Head Regional Development Policy Division.
More info: www.oecd.org/gov/regional-policy/
- The OECD area has become more decentralised over the last two decades, with reforms profoundly changing fiscal decentralisation in some countries. Motivations for reforms vary and include both democratic and economic factors.
- Recent trends include changes to responsibilities, especially in education, transport, and health, as well as multi-level governance reforms involving institutions, public management, and territories.
- While decentralisation provides benefits like efficiency and democratic governance, it also risks inefficiencies and disparities if not implemented properly with adequate capacities, resources, coordination, and fiscal frameworks at subnational levels.
Productivity, agglomeration and metropolitan governanceOECD Governance
Presentation made by Joaquim Oliveira Martins, Head Regional Development Policy, OECD, at the Global Forum on Productivity, held in Lisbon Portugal on 7-8 July 2016.
www.oecd.org/gov/regional-policy/
Low density regions: places of opportunityOECDregions
Presentation on low density regions made at the DG Agri at the European Commission on Future Orientation of OECD’s Work on Rural Policy. Presentation made by Enrique Garcilazo, Head Rural Policy, OECD Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Local Development and Tourism.
More information: http://www.oecd.org/regional/regional-policy/oecdworkonruraldevelopment.htm
This document discusses productivity in cities and the role of metropolitan governance. It finds that larger cities tend to be more productive due to agglomeration effects from sharing resources and thicker labor markets. However, administrative fragmentation in metropolitan areas can reduce productivity by hindering coordination, and is linked to increased income segregation and urban sprawl. The establishment of metropolitan governance bodies can help internalize externalities, reduce sprawl, and increase citizen satisfaction with public services like transportation. Overall, good governance is important for maximizing the benefits of agglomeration and improving performance in metropolitan areas.
OECD Metropolitan Review of Rotterdam-The HagueOECD Governance
Presentation of the OECD Metropolitan Review of Rotterdam-the Hague launch in the Netherlands on 1 February 2016.
www.oecd.org/regional/regional-policy/
Fiscal relations across levels of government and regional disparitiesOECD Governance
This document summarizes research on the relationship between fiscal decentralization and regional disparities. The key findings are:
1) Tax decentralization and higher fiscal authority are associated with lower regional disparities, especially for lower income regions, by stimulating sub-national governments to implement more pro-growth policies.
2) Revenue decentralization and higher vertical fiscal imbalances are linked to higher regional disparities.
3) The impact of fiscal decentralization on disparities depends on factors like countries' levels of development and quality of government institutions. Decentralization seems to reduce disparities more in developed countries with higher-quality government.
The Global Productivity Slowdown, Technology Divergence and Public Policy: A ...Structuralpolicyanalysis
1) Labour productivity at the global frontier remained robust, but laggard firms fell increasingly behind, leading to productivity divergence.
2) This divergence reflects divergence in multifactor productivity and likely technological divergence, driven partly by structural changes that allowed "winner-take-all" dynamics.
3) While some divergence was inevitable, policies promoting competition and diffusion, like pro-competitive product market reforms, could have helped lean against these forces and reduced divergence, particularly in services where reforms have slowed.
The contribution of regional policy to inclusive growthOECDregions
Presentation made at the European Week of Regions and Cities, on 10 october 2017 in Brussels, Belgium. Presentation byJoaquim Oliveira Martins, OECD Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Local Development and Tourism.
For more information: http://www.oecd.org/cfe/regional-policy/
Productivity Spillovers, Diffusion and Public Policies: A Portuguese PerspectiveStructuralpolicyanalysis
Lower productivity growth in Portugal is associated with several factors:
1) Slower adoption of digital technologies and globalization has led to a gap between frontier firms and other firms.
2) This was amplified by the economic crisis after 2008.
3) Portugal needs to increase multifactor productivity growth to converge faster with more developed economies like Canada, France, and Germany.
4) Lower productivity growth in Portugal does not seem to be associated with differences in productivity between firms in the same sector or with higher wage dispersion between high and low skilled workers.
Presentation on Urban trends and challenges in OECD countries- the potential of small and medium sized areas by Ioannis Kaplanis, Economist (Urban Programme) Regional Development Policy Division at the Open Days, Brussels, Belgium 6-9 October 2014.
Find out more about OECD Regional Developmnet Policy at: www.oecd.org/gov/regional-policy/
Philip McCann - Cities, Regions & ProductivityOECD CFE
This document discusses several paradoxes and puzzles regarding common assumptions about cities, regions, and productivity. It summarizes recent evidence that challenges some of these assumptions, such as: not all cities display a productivity premium; larger cities are not always more productive or resilient; the link between productivity growth and wage growth is weakening; regional re-allocations and innovation diffusion are not universally driving growth as assumed; and urban economic models based on land prices and population growth do not always apply given population declines in some cities. The document examines how the experiences of European cities both support and contradict some textbook frameworks.
1) Productivity growth has declined since the 1990s across many countries and regions like the OECD, US, and Euro area.
2) There is a growing gap between the most productive "frontier" firms and the rest, with frontier firms increasing productivity much faster.
3) Rising inequality in countries over this time period may be lowering skills development and contributing to weaker productivity and income growth overall. Win-win policies that boost both productivity and inclusiveness are needed.
Presentation on “Enhancing the role of municipalities in local & regional economies - Subnational finances to support local development” made at the Seminar on "Innovations and challenges in the management of a regional policy, held in Bratislava, Slovak Republic, 22 February 2017. Presentation by Isabelle Chatry, Regional Development Policy Division, OECD.
More information: www.oecd.org/gov/regional-policy/innovations-and-challenges.htm
This document discusses using a Delphi method to forecast the future of the Liverpool city-region in 2065. It begins by providing an overview of what a Delphi method is, which involves surveying experts anonymously and having them complete questionnaires in iterative rounds to build consensus around forecasts. It notes key aspects like allowing respondents to learn from others' views without direct influence, and requiring dissenting opinions to explain their reasoning.
It then discusses preparation needed for a Delphi study on the Liverpool city-region, including developing scenarios of potential futures to 2065 to structure responses. Multiple rounds of anonymous questionnaires would be conducted digitally and analyzed between rounds to refine forecasts. The goal is a structured expert group process to effectively develop strategic
Mauro Pisu - The effect of public sector efficiency on firm-level productivit...OECD CFE
Presentation by Mauro Pisu, OECD at the OECD Workshop on Spatial Dimensions of Productivity, 28-29 March 2019, Bolzano.
More info: https://oe.cd/GFPBolzano2019
Stephen Aldridge -Public sector efficiency in the UKOECD CFE
Presentation by Stephen Aldridge, Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, UK at the OECD Workshop on Spatial Dimensions of Productivity, 28-29 March 2019, Bolzano.
More info: https://oe.cd/GFPBolzano2019
Regional productivity catching up: the role of EU cohesion policy and the OEC...OECD CFE
Presentation by Alexander LEMBCKE, Economist, Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities, OECD at the OECD session on "Regional productivity catching up: the role of EU cohesion policy and the OECD perspective", 3 June 2018, Trento, Italy
More information https://oe.cd/festival
Alexander Lembcke - Roads, market access and regional economic development OECD CFE
Presentation by Alexander Lembcke, OECD at the OECD Workshop on Spatial Dimensions of Productivity, 28-29 March 2019, Bolzano.
More info: https://oe.cd/GFPBolzano2019
1. Productivity in public services is difficult to measure compared to private sector services due to the lack of market forces and profit motives. Measuring quality and effectiveness is even more challenging but important.
2. The Finnish Tax Administration improved productivity over 25 years through digitalization, which streamlined processes, reduced personnel needs despite increasing tasks, and saved citizens 8+ million hours annually filling out pre-filled online tax forms.
3. Management and leadership are crucial for public sector productivity according to the Finnish experience, as they guide strategy, understanding of the organization's purpose, and productivity improvements through changes to processes, organization, skills, and laws.
Executive Director Steven Tobin was a keynote speaker at the Growing Your Workforce Conference hosted by Workforce Planning West and Learning Networks of Western Region.
Alexandert Himbert - Trade facilitation and spatial patterns of economic acti...OECD CFE
Presentation by Alexandert Himbert, OECD at the OECD Workshop on Spatial Dimensions of Productivity, 28-29 March 2019, Bolzano.
More info: https://oe.cd/GFPBolzano2019
This document discusses high-skilled immigration to the United States and its impact on the economy. It notes that immigrants make up around 16% of the US workforce, with an even higher percentage working in science and engineering fields. The document examines how the composition of high-skilled immigrant workers has changed over time, with more coming from India and working in computer-related fields. It also analyzes data showing that companies more reliant on high-skilled immigrants lobby more for immigration reform. Overall, the document explores the complex relationship between high-skilled immigration, inequality, innovation, and economic growth.
Positioning Your Neighborhood for Economic DevelopmentRWVentures
This document outlines strategic development scenarios for redeveloping an underutilized site owned by the Casey Foundation in Atlanta. Four scenarios are presented: a regional distribution hub, a mixed white/blue collar business services hub, a blue-collar innovation hub, and a mixed-use food development. Tradeoffs of each are analyzed based on job creation, quality and accessibility; market viability; connectivity; and catalytic potential. Three scenarios - a mixed B2B hub, blue-collar innovation hub, and mixed-use food development - were prioritized. A developer has been selected to create a final development scheme integrating priorities around jobs, sustainability, connectivity, and leadership.
Icts, economic growth and digital divideSimone Gamba
1) ICTs provide opportunities for developing countries to reduce economic gaps with developed nations by lowering costs and improving efficiency. However, empirical evidence shows the gap increasing qualitatively as storage, computing, and transmission capacities diverge.
2) While developing nations show rapid ICT adoption rates, qualitative analysis reveals a widening gap in technological capabilities. The digital divide persists contrary to predictions.
3) Factors like education, skills, policies, infrastructure, and culture on both supply and demand sides affect how ICTs impact development. ICTs have so far failed to fully close digital and economic divides between developing and developed countries. The debate on their development effects remains open.
The world population has grown exponentially from 5 million in 8000 BC to over 6 billion currently. Most population growth is occurring in poorer parts of the world. The global population increases the worldwide demand for food by 2% per year. However, the poorest countries only see a 1.9% increase in food supply to match their higher 2.5% increase in demand. Potential solutions to increasing the global food supply include improving crop yields through technology like genetic modification, expanding available farmland, and boosting food production from aquatic sources. However, simply providing technology or food to underdeveloped areas may not fully address the issues caused by rising populations and unequal access to resources.
The world population is currently over 7 billion and growing rapidly, especially in developing countries. India's population reached 1.27 billion in 2013, with high fertility rates contributing to growth. Rapid population increase can both promote and retard economic development by increasing the workforce but also straining resources. Ensuring adequate food supply is challenging with rising demand of 2% annually, though uneven distribution is also a major issue. Reducing population growth through education and prosperity, boosting agricultural productivity, and protecting resources can help balance population and food security.
Fiscal relations across levels of government and regional disparitiesOECD Governance
This document summarizes research on the relationship between fiscal decentralization and regional disparities. The key findings are:
1) Tax decentralization and higher fiscal authority are associated with lower regional disparities, especially for lower income regions, by stimulating sub-national governments to implement more pro-growth policies.
2) Revenue decentralization and higher vertical fiscal imbalances are linked to higher regional disparities.
3) The impact of fiscal decentralization on disparities depends on factors like countries' levels of development and quality of government institutions. Decentralization seems to reduce disparities more in developed countries with higher-quality government.
The Global Productivity Slowdown, Technology Divergence and Public Policy: A ...Structuralpolicyanalysis
1) Labour productivity at the global frontier remained robust, but laggard firms fell increasingly behind, leading to productivity divergence.
2) This divergence reflects divergence in multifactor productivity and likely technological divergence, driven partly by structural changes that allowed "winner-take-all" dynamics.
3) While some divergence was inevitable, policies promoting competition and diffusion, like pro-competitive product market reforms, could have helped lean against these forces and reduced divergence, particularly in services where reforms have slowed.
The contribution of regional policy to inclusive growthOECDregions
Presentation made at the European Week of Regions and Cities, on 10 october 2017 in Brussels, Belgium. Presentation byJoaquim Oliveira Martins, OECD Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Local Development and Tourism.
For more information: http://www.oecd.org/cfe/regional-policy/
Productivity Spillovers, Diffusion and Public Policies: A Portuguese PerspectiveStructuralpolicyanalysis
Lower productivity growth in Portugal is associated with several factors:
1) Slower adoption of digital technologies and globalization has led to a gap between frontier firms and other firms.
2) This was amplified by the economic crisis after 2008.
3) Portugal needs to increase multifactor productivity growth to converge faster with more developed economies like Canada, France, and Germany.
4) Lower productivity growth in Portugal does not seem to be associated with differences in productivity between firms in the same sector or with higher wage dispersion between high and low skilled workers.
Presentation on Urban trends and challenges in OECD countries- the potential of small and medium sized areas by Ioannis Kaplanis, Economist (Urban Programme) Regional Development Policy Division at the Open Days, Brussels, Belgium 6-9 October 2014.
Find out more about OECD Regional Developmnet Policy at: www.oecd.org/gov/regional-policy/
Philip McCann - Cities, Regions & ProductivityOECD CFE
This document discusses several paradoxes and puzzles regarding common assumptions about cities, regions, and productivity. It summarizes recent evidence that challenges some of these assumptions, such as: not all cities display a productivity premium; larger cities are not always more productive or resilient; the link between productivity growth and wage growth is weakening; regional re-allocations and innovation diffusion are not universally driving growth as assumed; and urban economic models based on land prices and population growth do not always apply given population declines in some cities. The document examines how the experiences of European cities both support and contradict some textbook frameworks.
1) Productivity growth has declined since the 1990s across many countries and regions like the OECD, US, and Euro area.
2) There is a growing gap between the most productive "frontier" firms and the rest, with frontier firms increasing productivity much faster.
3) Rising inequality in countries over this time period may be lowering skills development and contributing to weaker productivity and income growth overall. Win-win policies that boost both productivity and inclusiveness are needed.
Presentation on “Enhancing the role of municipalities in local & regional economies - Subnational finances to support local development” made at the Seminar on "Innovations and challenges in the management of a regional policy, held in Bratislava, Slovak Republic, 22 February 2017. Presentation by Isabelle Chatry, Regional Development Policy Division, OECD.
More information: www.oecd.org/gov/regional-policy/innovations-and-challenges.htm
This document discusses using a Delphi method to forecast the future of the Liverpool city-region in 2065. It begins by providing an overview of what a Delphi method is, which involves surveying experts anonymously and having them complete questionnaires in iterative rounds to build consensus around forecasts. It notes key aspects like allowing respondents to learn from others' views without direct influence, and requiring dissenting opinions to explain their reasoning.
It then discusses preparation needed for a Delphi study on the Liverpool city-region, including developing scenarios of potential futures to 2065 to structure responses. Multiple rounds of anonymous questionnaires would be conducted digitally and analyzed between rounds to refine forecasts. The goal is a structured expert group process to effectively develop strategic
Mauro Pisu - The effect of public sector efficiency on firm-level productivit...OECD CFE
Presentation by Mauro Pisu, OECD at the OECD Workshop on Spatial Dimensions of Productivity, 28-29 March 2019, Bolzano.
More info: https://oe.cd/GFPBolzano2019
Stephen Aldridge -Public sector efficiency in the UKOECD CFE
Presentation by Stephen Aldridge, Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, UK at the OECD Workshop on Spatial Dimensions of Productivity, 28-29 March 2019, Bolzano.
More info: https://oe.cd/GFPBolzano2019
Regional productivity catching up: the role of EU cohesion policy and the OEC...OECD CFE
Presentation by Alexander LEMBCKE, Economist, Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities, OECD at the OECD session on "Regional productivity catching up: the role of EU cohesion policy and the OECD perspective", 3 June 2018, Trento, Italy
More information https://oe.cd/festival
Alexander Lembcke - Roads, market access and regional economic development OECD CFE
Presentation by Alexander Lembcke, OECD at the OECD Workshop on Spatial Dimensions of Productivity, 28-29 March 2019, Bolzano.
More info: https://oe.cd/GFPBolzano2019
1. Productivity in public services is difficult to measure compared to private sector services due to the lack of market forces and profit motives. Measuring quality and effectiveness is even more challenging but important.
2. The Finnish Tax Administration improved productivity over 25 years through digitalization, which streamlined processes, reduced personnel needs despite increasing tasks, and saved citizens 8+ million hours annually filling out pre-filled online tax forms.
3. Management and leadership are crucial for public sector productivity according to the Finnish experience, as they guide strategy, understanding of the organization's purpose, and productivity improvements through changes to processes, organization, skills, and laws.
Executive Director Steven Tobin was a keynote speaker at the Growing Your Workforce Conference hosted by Workforce Planning West and Learning Networks of Western Region.
Alexandert Himbert - Trade facilitation and spatial patterns of economic acti...OECD CFE
Presentation by Alexandert Himbert, OECD at the OECD Workshop on Spatial Dimensions of Productivity, 28-29 March 2019, Bolzano.
More info: https://oe.cd/GFPBolzano2019
This document discusses high-skilled immigration to the United States and its impact on the economy. It notes that immigrants make up around 16% of the US workforce, with an even higher percentage working in science and engineering fields. The document examines how the composition of high-skilled immigrant workers has changed over time, with more coming from India and working in computer-related fields. It also analyzes data showing that companies more reliant on high-skilled immigrants lobby more for immigration reform. Overall, the document explores the complex relationship between high-skilled immigration, inequality, innovation, and economic growth.
Positioning Your Neighborhood for Economic DevelopmentRWVentures
This document outlines strategic development scenarios for redeveloping an underutilized site owned by the Casey Foundation in Atlanta. Four scenarios are presented: a regional distribution hub, a mixed white/blue collar business services hub, a blue-collar innovation hub, and a mixed-use food development. Tradeoffs of each are analyzed based on job creation, quality and accessibility; market viability; connectivity; and catalytic potential. Three scenarios - a mixed B2B hub, blue-collar innovation hub, and mixed-use food development - were prioritized. A developer has been selected to create a final development scheme integrating priorities around jobs, sustainability, connectivity, and leadership.
Icts, economic growth and digital divideSimone Gamba
1) ICTs provide opportunities for developing countries to reduce economic gaps with developed nations by lowering costs and improving efficiency. However, empirical evidence shows the gap increasing qualitatively as storage, computing, and transmission capacities diverge.
2) While developing nations show rapid ICT adoption rates, qualitative analysis reveals a widening gap in technological capabilities. The digital divide persists contrary to predictions.
3) Factors like education, skills, policies, infrastructure, and culture on both supply and demand sides affect how ICTs impact development. ICTs have so far failed to fully close digital and economic divides between developing and developed countries. The debate on their development effects remains open.
The world population has grown exponentially from 5 million in 8000 BC to over 6 billion currently. Most population growth is occurring in poorer parts of the world. The global population increases the worldwide demand for food by 2% per year. However, the poorest countries only see a 1.9% increase in food supply to match their higher 2.5% increase in demand. Potential solutions to increasing the global food supply include improving crop yields through technology like genetic modification, expanding available farmland, and boosting food production from aquatic sources. However, simply providing technology or food to underdeveloped areas may not fully address the issues caused by rising populations and unequal access to resources.
The world population is currently over 7 billion and growing rapidly, especially in developing countries. India's population reached 1.27 billion in 2013, with high fertility rates contributing to growth. Rapid population increase can both promote and retard economic development by increasing the workforce but also straining resources. Ensuring adequate food supply is challenging with rising demand of 2% annually, though uneven distribution is also a major issue. Reducing population growth through education and prosperity, boosting agricultural productivity, and protecting resources can help balance population and food security.
Enterprise mobility refers to mobile devices, networks, services, applications, and solutions. It involves mobile application development, lifecycle management, and managed mobility services like mobile device management and security. Mobility is driving changes in IT as personal devices are used for work. Many organizations are developing mobile apps and supporting BYOD. Mobility poses new challenges for security, management, integration and costs. While mobility adoption is increasing, enterprises face challenges from the fragmented market and balancing user and organizational needs.
Sri Lanka is an island country located off the southern coast of India with a population of around 20 million people. The majority of Sri Lankans are Buddhist, while there are also significant populations of Hindus, Muslims, and Christians. Sri Lanka has a literacy rate of 92% and the economy has grown in recent years, though it still faces challenges from political violence and the effects of the 2004 tsunami.
Culture, Economy, Natural Resources, and Geography of the Philippinesblanchardschool
The Philippines has a tropical climate and over 7,000 islands. The population is around 98 million people and the main languages are Filipino, English, and Spanish. Families are very important and Catholicism is the dominant religion. The economy relies on agriculture, fishing, and tourism. Traditional Filipino clothing includes the barong tagalog for men and terno or balintawak for women.
The document provides an overview of key economic concepts including:
1. It defines the economy as how people use their environment to meet material needs through production, exchange, distribution and consumption of goods and services.
2. It notes the tension between unlimited human needs and limited resources.
3. It states that the world's dominant economic system is capitalism, which is based on private ownership and market competition.
4. Key economic agents in a capitalist system are private individuals/families, private companies, and the public sector/state. Factors of production include land, labor, capital and entrepreneurship.
Economic Geography Rick Gindele NCGE 2013Seth Dixon
The document discusses several economic geography models including von Thunen's land use theory, the bid-rent model, and Weber's industrial location theory. It addresses common questions teachers have about where these models fit into the AP Human Geography course outline and which models are least covered in major textbooks. The bid-rent model and land use theory are highlighted as being underrepresented. The document provides background on these theories and how they relate to determining optimal land allocation and use based on accessibility, transportation costs, and competing land uses.
The document provides an overview of the nature and scope of economics. It discusses how economics is defined as the study of how individuals and societies choose to use scarce resources. Economics can be divided into microeconomics, which examines individual decision-making units like businesses and households, and macroeconomics, which examines aggregates on a national scale. The document also explores different economic systems like capitalism, socialism, and mixed economies, and how economies can be evaluated based on criteria like growth, stability, efficiency, and equity.
Due to the global economy, the spatiality is more and more important issue. In the past, usually spatial organization based on nation level, for now this is fundamentally transformed to regions.
This document discusses issues in global media studies and the rise of Asian media capitals. It questions assumptions about the dominance of Hollywood and argues global media markets are becoming more diverse and decentralized. The document introduces concepts from cultural economic geography, including how culture drives competitive advantage, and how certain regions develop innovative clusters through path-dependent interactions. It examines two trajectories of economic globalization - deterritorialized commodity production versus territorialized production relying on location-specific resources. The rise of Chinese media industries is discussed as a potential new media capital, though regionalization rather than globalization may be occurring, and East Asian media policies lack coherence.
The document summarizes the potential for creative industries to support socio-economic development in developing countries. It argues that creative industries offer opportunities for job creation, wealth generation, and cultural expression. While challenges remain around supporting infrastructure and intellectual property protection, examples like Nollywood in Nigeria and Jamaica's reggae industry demonstrate how local creative sectors can thrive on a global scale through authentic cultural expression and new digital technologies. The document advocates for developing countries to recognize and invest in their creative talents and industries.
This presentation discusses globalization and whether it is good or bad. It defines globalization as the free movement of goods, services, capital, technology and information across borders. While globalization can create a worldwide market and foster development, it can also increase inequality and threaten social and cultural values. The presenters note globalization is like fire - it can be used constructively or destructively depending on how it is managed. They examine perspectives on globalization from both developed and developing countries like Nepal. The conclusion is globalization will contribute to sustainable development if its negative effects are addressed.
Shenzhen university presentation 27 oct 16Terry Flew
This document discusses the relationship between globalization and the creative economy and culture. It examines whether globalization is necessary for the creative economy through analyzing cultural trade and comparative advantage. While globalization increases cultural exchange, it can also lead to an unequal economic order with some nations having cultural trade surpluses and deficits. The document also analyzes concepts like cultural imperialism, glocalization, media capitals, and the potential for US-China coproductions to strengthen China's soft power and film industry over the medium term. It questions whether political, economic and cultural power will remain interconnected in a globalized world or become more divergent.
This document summarizes the key points from a presentation by Dipak K. Roy at the ECCSSA Conference 2013. It discusses several challenges facing the global economy, including the rise of China, economic instability, resource depletion, and demographic shifts. It also examines issues in the US economy like slowing productivity and job growth concentrated in less productive service sectors. The document advocates for reforms in higher education, including addressing deficiencies in standards and curriculum, improving accountability, and making the introductory curriculum more quantitative. It highlights the importance of leadership focused on principles rather than politics to drive meaningful and lasting change.
Seven decades of development? A short introduction to some of the big con...tobiasdenskus
The document summarizes the major concepts and theories in post-war international development over seven decades from the 1950s to present. It outlines six eras: modernity in the 1950s focused on growth models; critique in the 1960s as dependency theory emerged; hope in the 1970s; disillusionment with structural adjustment in the late 1970s-1980s; a new dawn in the post-1989 period; and an ongoing beginning from 2000 onward with new actors like BRICS countries and philanthropists playing larger roles. The document analyzes the ideas and realities of different development approaches over time from Rostow to NGOization to show how development theory and practice has evolved and become more complex.
This document discusses globalization and internationalization strategies. It begins by defining globalization as the process by which geographic constraints on economic, social and cultural arrangements recede, increasing interdependence. Key factors that have boosted globalization are discussed, including governments privatizing/deregulating economic activities and advances in technology intensifying global connectedness. The implications for international companies are increased globalization of production and markets. Challenges of globalization like the financial crisis prompting calls for "de-globalization" through policies protecting local industries are also covered.
The document discusses the importance of culture-based creativity for economic growth and innovation. It argues that cultural policy needs to be redefined to better support and promote creativity. Recommendations include valuing culture as a resource for creativity, mainstreaming creativity in local policies, and branding Ireland as a place that supports creativity.
The document discusses globalization, film, and television in the digital age. It covers topics such as the current technological revolution driven by innovations in information and telecommunications; the current era of globalization and increasing integration of economies and cultures; the rise of a global middle class and the development of a global consumer culture; the growth of brand empires in the film and television industries; and the disruption of traditional media landscapes by new technologies, competitors, and ways of financing productions. It examines issues like the homogenization of culture through globalization and the role of global corporations, as well as debates around these topics.
R&D investment in developing countries to address social challengesJosé Guimón
Why should developing countries invest in R&D and innovation? How can developing countries better align their R&D efforts towards societal needs? How to combine “grand challenge” with “small challenge” initiatives in social innovation? What lessons can be learnt from recent experiences in international R&D cooperation to address societal challenges?
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Cultural Economic Geography: A New Paradigm for Global Communication Studies?
1. Cultural Economic Geography:
A New Paradigm for Global Media Studies?
Professor Terry Flew, Creative Industries Faculty,
Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
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2. Issues for Global Media Studies
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1. Is the influence of “Global Hollywood” increasing
or decreasing in the early 21st century?
2. Are the number of significant “media capitals”
increasing or decreasing? What makes for a
sustainable media capital?
3. Is there a tendency towards policy convergence
between national media systems?
3. Cultural Economic Geography
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“Cultural turn” in economic geography
Regulation School
Consumption as a socio-economic driver
Cultural economy
Discursive construction of economic categories
Rethinking spatial dimensions of social power
“Culture” as an economic variable
4. Three “big ideas” of cultural economic geography
(MericGertler)
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Flexible global production networks - changing
significance of geographical proximity
Shift in innovation models from ideas-push to
geographical clusters and sustained interaction –
why do some regions develop path-dependent
untraded interdependencies?
Cumulative advantage of path-dependent
innovation and increasing returns to scale
5. Rise of creative industries
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Rise of the CI sectors: 7-9% of US GDP, and 3-5% for
other OECD economies
Shifting of lines between „symbolic‟ and „material‟
goods
Design-intensity of products
Sign-value and competitive advantage
“Engel‟s Law”: consumer affluence and symbolic consumption
Clustering in CIs:
Tacit knowledge of specialist labour inputs
Networked organisation of production (SMEs)
Project-based employment and transaction costs
Matching individual creativity to market opportunity
Associated services, infrastructure and policy environment
6. Michael Curtin, Playing to the World’s Biggest
Audience (UC Press, 2007)
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• Rise of “Greater China” as a centre of media
production and consumption
• Is this developing an independent dynamism
in a fast-growing market?
•Hollywood today is nevertheless very much
like Detroit forty years ago, a factory town
that produces big bloated vehicles with plenty
of chrome. As production budgets mushroom,
quality declines in large part as a result of
institutional inertia and a lack of competition.
Like Detroit, Hollywood has dominated for so
long that many of its executives have difficulty
envisioning the transformations now on the
horizon. Because of this myopia, the global
future is commonly imagined as a world
brought together by homogeneous cultural
products produced and circulated by American
media (Curtin, 2007: 4).
7. Variables shaping the spatial dimensions of
media/media capitals
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Logic of accumulation: centripedal forces of
production/centrifugal tendencies of distribution
Trajectories of creative migration
Forces of socio-cultural variation
Role of national media policies
8. Issues arising
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Are Chinese media industries really on a
“Hollywood” trajectory?
Regionalization rather than globalization –
inclusions (Singapore?) and exclusions (Japan,
Korea?)
Issue of lack of policy coherence in media policies
across East Asia